In it’s long history, the Dark Sun community has adopted a number of common abbreviations when referring to various products. This list is expanded here, for reference:
Dark Sun Versions
- DS1 : The Dark Sun Boxed Set
- DS2 : Dark Sun: Expanded and Revised
- DS3 : Athas.org 3rd edition
- DS4 : the Dark Sun Campaign Setting (4e)
Dark Sun Products
- AG: Asticlian Gambit
- AoH: Age of Heroes
- AS: Arcane Shadows
- BS: Black Spine
- BW: Black Waters
- CbtSS: City by the Silt Sea
- CSoT: City State of Tyr
- DC: Dragon’s Crown
- DT: Dune Trader
- EoA: Elves of Athas
- EAFW: Earth, Air, Fire and Water
- FM: Forest Maker
- FR: Freedom
- IT: Ivory Triangle
- MHoA: Merchant House of Amketch
- MoN: Marauders of Nibenay
- RtU: Road to Urik
- ST: Slave Tribes
- VA: Veiled Alliance
- VoDaF: Valley of Dust and Fire
- WatW: The Will and the Way
- WJ: Wanderer’s Journal
- BtPP: Beyond the Prism Pentad
- CoA: Chronicles of Athas
- CGH: The Complete Gladiator’s Handbook
- D&P: Defilers and Preservers
- DK: Dragon Kings
- MC1: Dark Sun Monstrus Compendium I: Terrors of the Desert
- MC2: Dark Sun Monstrus Compendium II: Terrors Beyond Tyr
- MLotLS: Mind Lords of the Last Sea
- PAoA: Psionic Artifacts of Athas
- PO:S&P: 2nd edition D&D Players Option: Skills & Powers
- PO:S&M: 2nd edition D&D Players Option: Spells and Magic
- PPn: Prism Pentad n
- RaFoaDK: Rise and Fall of a Dragon King
- SK: Sorcerer King
- TKoA: Thri-Kreen of Athas
- WC: Wanderers Chronicle
- WRotJC: Windriders of the Jagged Cliffs
Internet Nomenclature
- DSML: Dark Sun Mailing List
- IDHMBIFOM: I Do not Have My Book In Front Of Me
- IMC: In My Campaign
- IM(H)O: In My (Humble) Opinion
- IIRC: If I Recall Correctly
- YMMV: Your Mileage May Vary